InterAcademy Partnership (IAP) webinar: Explaining the IPCC calls for nominations of authors

This webinar, the first in a planned series in collaboration with the IPCC Focal Point for Italy, aims to convene climate change experts and other interested parties (e.g. representatives of academies of science). It will focus on the process of IPCC calls for nominations of authors and how academies and experts can engage.

The introductory webinar will explain this new IAP initiative and the key steps in the preparation of an IPCC report. The webinar takes place in conjunction with the latest IPCC call for nominations. The aim is to provide participants with all the information needed to apply as an author or, if you are a representative of a national academy, to act as a catalyst at the national level. The overarching aim of this series of webinars is to meet the need of increasing the representation of experts from the Global South in the IPCC science-policy interface. The event will be recorded and summarized on the IAP website (see past webinars).

Background

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) provides regular assessments of the scientific basis of climate change, its impacts, and future risks, as well as adaptation and mitigation options. The IPCC Assessment Reports provide authoritative information for governments and policymakers. While each IPCC report may include contributions from hundreds of authors, contributors and insights from developing countries are consistently underrepresented. This raises issues related to the diversity of inputs that are critical for policy-relevant assessments. There are also ethical aspects, as the risks and consequences of the climate crisis are disproportionately affecting the most vulnerable, those who typically live in countries that have historically emitted the least amount of greenhouse gases. Thus, there is a critical need to increase the breadth of insights and knowledge contributed to IPCC reports by experts from low- and middle income countries.

Speakers

• Peter McGrath – InterAcademy Partnership (IAP) Coordinator (c/o UNESCO-TWAS, The World Academy of Sciences, Trieste, Italy)
• Anna Pirani – Intergovernmental Panel For Climate Change (IPCC) National Focal Point for Italy, Senior Scientist and Director of the Programme on Predicting Socio-Economic Outcomes, Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change (CMCC)
• Ladislaus Chang’a – Vice Chair, Intergovernmental Panel For Climate Change (IPCC); Acting Director General of the Tanzania Meteorological Authority
• Patricia Nying’uro – Intergovernmental Panel For Climate Change (IPCC) National Focal Point for Kenya, Climate Scientist & Principal Meteorologist at the Kenya Meteorological Department and Scientific staff at the Oescheger Center for Climate Change Research, Bern, Switzerland
• Aditi Mukherji – Platform Director, Climate Change and Adaptation, Impact Action Platform, Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research (CGIAR)

More information about the webinar can be accessed here or by visiting the event page.

The webinar is organized as part of the IAP Webinar Series. Inquiries should be sent to Peter McGrath [email protected] or IAP Secretariat at [email protected].

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